The Southern Poverty Law Center released a chilling report yesterday, called "Climate of Fear," which details growing violent hatred of Latino immigrants. It focuses on a single county in New York state, but notes that the incidents there – one horrible incident after another – are illustrative of a much larger nationwide problem.

Sunday's Washington Post has two stories about Cpl. Steven Jackson, the Prince George’s County police officer accused of beating and then fatally shooting Manuel de Jesus Espina. The incident last August caused uproar and exposed the mistrust between county police and Langley Park’s large Hispanic community.
A Metro section-front story reports how Espina’s son, Manuel de [...]